RT Article
T1 Psychological type and religious orientation: do introverts and extraverts go to church for different reasons?
JF Mental health, religion & culture
VO 13
IS 7/8
SP 821
OP 827
A1 Francis, Leslie J.
A1 Robbins, Mandy
A1 Murray, Laura
A2 Robbins, Mandy
A2 Murray, Laura
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1838984321
AB This study set out to profile an Anglican congregation in the south of England in terms of religious orientation, assessed by the New Indices of Religious Orientation, and in terms of psychological type, assessed by the Francis Psychological Type Scales, in order to test the hypothesis that motivation for church attendance (religious orientation) is related to personality (psychological type). The data demonstrated that this congregation (N = 65) displayed clear preferences for judging (72%) over perceiving (28%) and for sensing (62%) over intuition (39%), slight preference for extraversion (54%) over introversion (46%) and a fairly close balance between feeling (51%) and thinking (49%), and included attenders who reflected all three religious orientations: intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest. Moreover, extraverts recorded significantly higher scores than introverts on the measure of extrinsic religiosity, while introverts recorded significantly higher scores than extraverts on the measure of intrinsic religiosity, demonstrating a link between psychological type and religious orientation.
K1 Church
K1 extraverts
K1 introverts
K1 psychological type
K1 Religious Orientation
DO 10.1080/13674670802207496